This year’s Spanish Scrabble champion? A man who can’t speak Spanish.
Nigel Richards, arguably the best Scrabble player ever, previously won French tournaments without speaking the language.
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New Zealander studied for a year to win the Spanish world Scrabble title. He doesn’t speak Spanish
While compensating for different tile values in English and Spanish Scrabble, Richards also had to contend with thousands of ...
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This year’s Spanish Scrabble champion is a man who can’t speak Spanish
“He was bored,” he said. For roughly the past year, Richards studied the Spanish-language Scrabble dictionary, memorizing ...
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A New Zealander studied for a year to win the Spanish world Scrabble title. He doesn’t speak Spanish
A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board ...